[CPEO-MEF] GROUNDWATER, REUSE: Crows Landing's former naval airfield (CA)

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Airfield cleanup plans get few comments

by Jonathan Partridge
Patterson Irrigator (CA)
February 13, 2012


Plans to turn Crows Landing's former naval airfield into a rail hub  
for the Port of Oakland have elicited an outcry among some West  
Siders, but talk last week about the U.S. Navy’s environmental  
cleanup plans there hardly garnered a peep.

About 20 people gathered at the Best Western Plus Villa del Lago  
conference center Thursday, Feb. 9 to learn about proposed ideas for  
removing toxins from the groundwater. Those include an eight-year,  
$5.56 million strategy, preferred by the Navy, to pump water out of  
the ground, treat it and return it to the aquifer.

The only people to speak at the meeting were a few local residents  
who wanted clarification about the Navy’s proposals and a Crows  
Landing resident who opposed a proposal to turn the airbase into a  
rail hub.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.pattersonirrigator.com/view/full_story/17519294/article- 
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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
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